DyaDA: An R Package for Dyadic Data Analysis

The current research presents a new statistical software to conduct a wide range of statistical analyses for dyadic interaction data. Specifically, an R package, called DyaDA, is being developed to measure and test different characteristics concerning dyadic interaction. The main aim of the DyaDA package is to provide a free statistical software that includes a wide set of statistical methods developed in fields as ethology, social psychology, communications, family studies, and sociology. These statistical methods cover the study of social phenomena as dominance, social reciprocity, mutual influence and dyadic nonindependence. The common feature of all statistical methods included in the package is that dyads are taken the units of analysis. The statistical software here presented can be useful for those social researchers interested in studying groups from a dyadic perspective.